Jobs and work opportunities at LendAround

PHP WEB DEVELOPER

Type: Permanent

Salary: £30K-40K, depending on experience

Location: near Portobello Road, London W10

LendAround.com is an exciting new startup that has hit the headlines at TechCrunch, BoingBoing and Lifehacker. We're building tools to help people lend and borrow things with their friends, starting with DVDs, and our private beta has seen an explosion of members and items listed.

Armed with some venture capital from highly respected investors from the industry, we’re now expanding – and that means putting more resource into building a world-class database-driven LAMP-stack back end.

We’re a small, friendly, and informal team, working out of a warehouse office with wooden floors and high windows close to the hip and edgy Portobello Road and Golborne Road. Surrounding us in the building are a range of talented people from the worlds of media, graphic design, photography, journalism and lots more.

If you’re a really talented PHP developer, with the ambition to be part of something really big, then this will be your dream job.

Key roles

- Working in a small but growing team of web developers, you’ll have a chance to liaise with everyone else in the company from graphic designer to CEO.

- You’ll be writing clear, well-documented code and doing some paired programming.

- We want your ideas as well as your execution: we’re building a fantastic service for users, you can help shape how we make it work robustly, and offer new functionality.

- You’ll regularly be on the lookout for technologies we can use, and you’ll have every chance to develop your skill set so your next job will be leading your own team.

Essential skills:

PHP5 and OOP

Design Patterns, MVC

Software architecture and security

MySQL, Apache, Linux

Know your way around (X)HTML, CSS, JS, Ajax,

XML plus web services, SOA, SOAP, REST

Experience with at least one PHP framework

VCS

HTTP

Nice to have:

Symfony

Doctrine

Subversion

TCP/IP, firewalling, NAT

Agile development

To apply, please email us at webdev-site@lendaround.com. Agencies and professional recruiters are welcome to contact us, but unfortunately we won’t respond.

FRONT-END DEVELOPER

Permanent
Salary: £30k-£35k
Location: near Portobello Road, London W10

LendAround.com is an exciting new startup that has hit the headlines at TechCrunch, BoingBoing and Lifehacker. We're building tools to help people lend and borrow things with their friends, starting with DVDs, and our private beta has seen an explosion of members and items listed.

Armed with some venture capital from some highly respected investors in web businesses, we’re now expanding. That will include some big changes and improvements to our front end, which means a lot of work and a lot of potential input for a front-end developer. It’s a chance to design a rich interface from the ground up, for what could be one of the fastest-growing web sites of 2010.

We’re a small, friendly, and informal team, working out of a warehouse office with wooden floors and high windows close to the hip and edgy Portobello Road and Golborne Road. Surrounding us in the building are a range of talented people from the worlds of media, graphic design, photography, journalism and lots more.

If you’re ready to make the move that could take your career up a level -- the kind of person that wants to develop your skills across the whole range of front-end development -- then this will be your dream job. It will also give you a chance to develop strong skills in user-experience testing with live people.

Key roles

- Working with our heavyweight back-end developers and talented graphic designer, and liaising directly with our CEO, you’ll be the owner of the front end.
- This means you’ll make sure that great visual ideas are translated into robust, lightweight code, and that our users get what they want quickly and beautifully.
- We want your ideas as well as your execution: we’re building a fantastic service for users, and we need your input on how to make it look stunning.
- You’ll regularly be on the lookout for technologies we can use, and innovations in user experience and interfaces.
- You’ll be trained in how to do fast, efficient user testing.

Essential skills:

- Superlative abilities with the web's frontend technologies: HTML/XHTML, CSS and Javascript.
- Knowledge and several years’ paid experience in designing web interfaces.

Nice-to-haves (in order of priority):
Scriptaculous or JQuery
Flash, Flex and/or ActionScript.
Photoshop or similar image editing software.
PHP, Symfony, Subversion, Linux

To apply, please email frontendsite@lendaround.com

Agencies and professional recruiters are welcome to contact us, but unfortunately we won’t respond.

TEST ANALYST
Permanent
Salary: £25K
Location: near Portobello Road, London W10

If you have some strong commercial experience as a test analyst, perhaps with one job and a year’s experience under your belt, then this is the perfect job for you. It could put your CV on the map, and help you move on to a more senior job as a developer.

The key role is working as part of a talented development team writing tests for new functionality. Ideas and input outside your area of work will be welcome, and you may have the chance to do one or two other things, too.

The essential skill we need is experience writing tests for a web application, preferably using Selenium.

Nice-to-haves would include experience with PHP, HTML, CSS or Javascript; and with Symfony and Lime.

To apply, please email testanalystsite@lendaround.com

Agencies and professional recruiters are welcome to contact us, but unfortunately we won’t respond.

We're looking for talented and motivated people who want to work hard, have fun and change the world.

Whatever your expertise, if you think you can make a contribution to the growth of LendAround.com, then please email us your resume at jobs@lendaround.com, with a cover note saying what job you'd like to have (or what job we should create for you) and why you think we should hire you.
Typical profiles might be:
•    Talented guerrilla marketeer (based in London)
•    Genius developer (front or back end) with experience of PHP/MySQL or Ruby on Rails (based anywhere)
•    Recognized expert on UI, UX or user testing (based in London)
We were overwhelmed with responses to the last two jobs we advertised.
If you already responded, no need to contact us again -- we've got your resume on file.

MARKETING, PR AND ONLINE COMMUNITIES INTERN WITH US FOCUS

You'll be working across the activities of a small but fast-growing company, getting exposure to our team's experience in software development, web design, marketing, venture capital, and journalism. You'll report directly to our CEO, who's one of London's most connected people in the Internet space.

What's on offer is an internship of three months upwards, in which you'll be paid a stipend of £100 a week. In return, we can offer:

- Fantastic experience to advance for your career in web marketing, PR, or online community work.
- A range of new skills for you to learn
- A great reference from our CEO which you can use on your CV.

Key responsibilities and learning opportunities
- Social media marketing: you'll learn to use networks like Facebook, Twitter, not just for fun and friendship but also for business
- Web and blog: you'll develop expertise in their PR use that will impress future employers
- Media monitoring: you'll learn about how and why to keep track of what the blogosphere and the traditional media are saying about your clients
- Working with specified communities: you'll learn how to mobilize students, film enthusiasts, and download users
- Press releases and outreach: you'll learn about contacting and influencing media people

Qualifications, skills and experience
- Knowledge of and familiarity with the United States is essential for this internship.
- Your 'social graph' when you apply, you'll need to demonstrate to us that you're a widely connected person and an experienced user of online networks
- A degree in marketing, journalism or PR would be a big plus
- You'll have great communication skills, and be good on the phone
- Your English will be exceptionally fluent, both spoken and in writing

How to apply
Sending your standard cover letter isn't going to get you the job. Instead, please write us a friendly email to intern-site@lendaround.com explaining how we'll benefit from your talents, why we'll enjoy having you around the office, what your long-term ambitions are (if any!), and what you'd most like to learn. Give us a sense of what your dream internship would be, so we can figure out whether there's a match. Attach your full CV too.